ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes William Edward Burghardt DuBois often-overlooked classic essay "The Souls of White Folk" to develop a long overdue dialogue between Africana studies and critical white studies. Traditionally "white supremacy" has been treated in race and racism discourse as white domination of and white discrimination against non-whites, and especially blacks. In "The Conservation of Races," Du Bois declared: "We believe that the Negro people, as a race, have a contribution to make to civilization and humanity, which no other race can make". He held this belief primarily for two reasons. First, it was based on Africa's past, "one of the richest and most intriguing which the world has known." The second reason Du Bois believed that Africana peoples had a significant contribution. Make to culture and civilization was because of their endurance and experiences of holocaust, enslavement, colonization, segregation and so on, had "gifted" them with "second-sight," as he put it in The Souls of Black Folk.
